Prof. Ravi Gomatam Curriculum Vitae
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Prof. Ravi Gomatam Curriculum Vitae Education (1998) Ph.D. in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Mumbai University (1974) M.E. in Electronics Engineering, BITS, Pilani, India (1972) B.E. in Electronics Engineering, Annamalai University, India Positions Held Director, Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology (www.insist.ac.in), 2008-current Visiting Professor, Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi, 2016-2017 Director, Bhaktivedanta Institute, Berkeley & Mumbai (www.bvinst.edu), 1997-current Adjunct Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS), Pilani, India, 1997-2007 Professor and Ph.D. Guide, University of Mumbai, 2015-Present Career Arc After Masters, moved to USA, worked with many fortune- 500 companies in Detroit, in the areas of operating system design, data communications and very large data base design. Returned to academics, obtained Ph.D. in Philosophy, foundations of quantum mechanics, from University of Mumbai. Over two decades of experience in research, post-graduate level teaching, and guiding M.S./Ph.D. dissertations. Pioneering work in three different fields of science Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics Semantic Information Sciences and Technology (SIST) Consciousness Studies Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics (MQM) Developing a quantum theory of the macroscopic regime logically independent of current microscopic quantum mechanics (mQM). A Nobel Laureate in quantum physics has remarked regarding his approach: "We can get out of the confusions in QM with this approach. Perhaps, this is how we should be doing science." His work in Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics (MQM) has already been cited in wide ranging fields from control engineering, neuroscience, ecology and marketing theory. Two of his papers have been part of curriculum at Masters level in courses at Brown University and University of Connecticut. Semantic Information Science and Technology (SIST) Pioneering the new field of Semantic Information Sciences & Technology. It is based on the idea of Objective Semantic Information, a new concept of matter based on his MQM. The Institute of Semantic Information Sciences is affiliated to University of Mumbai for awarding M.A. (by research) and Ph.D. degrees in Philosophy of Science based on SIST. A 4-year B. Tech is ready in SIST. Looking for collaboration with a good technological University. SIST will be applicable across all fields of sciences & technology. Consciousness Studies Organized the First International Conference on the Study of Consciousness within Science in 1990 in San Francisco. Speakers were who’s who of Consciousness researchers including two Nobel Laureates – George Wald and John Eccles. Published and reviewed papers of Journal of Consciousness Studies among others. Conceived and designed world’s first M.S/Ph.D. program in Consciousness Studies in collaboration with Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani in 1997 in Mumbai. Inaugurated by Prof. Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate. Alumni have gone to study in leading universities like Harvard, Leeds and Utrecht. Developed his own unique approach to Consciousness Studies as a scientific study of experience independent of consciousness, by treating brain as a single system, a phenomenal whole via his Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics (MQM). Current Research Interests Complex analysis; Macroscopic Quantum mechanics; Semantic search engine; Quantum Computing; Foundations of Chemistry; Entropy and information; Biology and information; History and Philosophy of Science; Vedic Bhaghavata Sankhya concepts of matter. Visiting Scholar Positions University of Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Mathematics (2001) University, New Orleans, Department of Philosophy (2001) Wikipedia Entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomatam_Ravi Reviewer of Journals Synthese Journal of Consciousness Studies Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, India Section A (Physical Sciences) Selected Research Papers 1. Gomatam, R. (2020), On the Necessity of God to Science, Forthcoming, “Science, Religion and Big Questions”, Learning about Science and Religion (LASAR) Research Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford, June 23, 2020. 2. Gomatam, R. (2020), On the Indivisibility of the Atom—Ancient Bhagavata Sankhya and Modern Quantum Theory, Forthcoming, “The 14th London Ancient Science Conference 2020”, University College London, Science and Technology Studies Department, February 17-21, 2020. 3. Gomatam, R. (2019), Einstein versus Bohr—Open versus Closed Epistemologies?, “Open Epistemologies” Conference, University of Portugal, Lisbon, September 20-21. 4. Gomatam, R. (2019), Biology, Information and Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics, Second Meeting of Philosophy in Biology and Medicine, University of Bordeaux, France Oct 14-15. 5. Gomatam, R. (2018), Complementarities beyond Bohr’s, International Congress of the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Groningen, Netherlands, July 9-12, 2018. 6. Gomatam, R. (2017), Quantum Mechanics and Experience, 10th Principia International Symposium, Florianópolis, Brazil, August 13-17, 2017. 7. Gomatam, R. (2017), The Central Dogma, Quantum Theory and Objective Semantic Information, Annual Meeting of the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 16-21, 2017. 8. Gomatam, R. (2017), Is Physics Truly Empirical, Currently? Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Bremen, March 2017. 9. Anderson, G., Behera, R.N., Gomatam, R. (2016), A Theoretical Approach to Engineering a New Enzyme, Journal of Physics: 738 (2016) 012013. 10. Gomatam, R. (2016), Toward Relational Reality, in Ghose, P. (Ed.), Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality, Routledge: London, pp. 86-105. 11. Gomatam, R. (2015), Objective Semantic Information and Quantum Local Causality, Causality in a Quantum World Conference, August 16-21. Conference part of the project, Causal Power of Information in a Quantum World, University of Queensland. 12. Gomatam, R. (2015), Toward Avoiding Nonlocality (and Locality) in Quantum Physics, Proceedings of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol 34 (1), June 14- 17, 2015, p. 145. 13. Gomatam, R. (2014), Toward Placing the Concept of Chemical Element on a New Quantum Footing, International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, July 7-9, 2014, London. 14. Gomatam, R. (2014), Tandem Realism—Physics and Commonsense, unpublished manuscript. 15. Anderson, G., Gomatam, R., Behera, L. (2013), Contradictions in the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic Table, Journal of Physics: 490 (2014) 012197. 16. Gomatam, R. (2013), A Critique of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, Chapter 9, Biology and Information, Kanwaljeet Kaur, M.S. Dissertation, Bhaktivedanta Institute. 17. Gomatam, R. (2012), A Quantum Model of Human Perception, Biologically Inspired System Science Conference, March 1-3, IIT, Jodhpur, India. 18. Gomatam, R. (2012), How Do Classical and Quantum Probabilities Differ? in Khrennikov, A. (Ed.), Foundations of Probability and Physics-6, American Institute of Physics, pp. 105-110. 19. Gomatam, R. (2010), Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics and System of Systems Design Approach, Indo- US Workshop on Systems Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Oct. 26-28. 20. Gomatam, R. (2009), Quantum Theory, the Chinese Room Argument and the Symbol Grounding Problem, in Bruza, P. et al. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5494, pp. 174-183, Springer. “This paper contains the germ of an important idea, namely that the ontology underlying the science needs or exploit quantum mechanics in a way that allows basic entities to be signs/symbols that are representations of meanings to be manipulated in the way that certain shapes are thought to be manipulated in the classical physics conception of reality.” — Prof Henry Stapp 21. Gomatam, R. (2008), Quantum Realism and Haecceity, in Ghose, P. (Ed.), HSPCIC Vol. XII: Levels of Reality, Part 5: Materialism and Immaterialism in India and the West: Varying Vistas, CSC, New Delhi, pp. 853-872. 22. Gomatam, R. (2007), Niels Bohr‘s Interpretation and the Copenhagen Interpretation—Are the two incompatible? Philosophy of Science, December, 74(5), pp. 736-748. Paper part of required reading in PHIL1620, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, taught by Douglas Kutach at Dept of Philosophy, Brown University (Spring 2010). Students submitted a 2500-word assignment on this paper. 23. Gomatam, R. (2005), Popper‘s Propensity Interpretation and Heisenberg‘s Potentia Interpretation—A Comparative Assessment, in Chattopadhyaya, D. P. and Sengupta, P. (Eds.), HSPCIC: A Historical Perspective Of The Evolution Of Ideas In Science, Vol. XIII, Part 6 , Probabilities, Propensity and Corroboration, CSC: New Delhi, pp. 301-312. “Gomatam has proposed a new approach according to which quantum theory ought to use the terms statistics‘ or probability‘ to refer only to the occurrence of observable events and altogether renounce the notion of probabilities when talking about quantum ontological states.” — Prof. B.V. Sreekantan in Current Science, Journal of Indian Academy of Sciences, 2010 24. Gomatam, R. (2005), Do Hodgson's propositions uniquely characterize free will?, Invited commentary on a target paper, "A Plain Person's View of Free Will" by David Hodgson, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12(1), pp. 32-40, Imprint Academic: UK. 25. Gomatam, R. (2004), Physics and Common Sense--Relearning the Connections in the Light of Quantum Theory, in Chattopadhyaya, D.P.